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I (allergic) malt liquor

Like most things I fall in love with, my passion for malt liquor was fleeting. Of course, that's because it turns out I'm allergic.

I had spent WAAAAYYYY too much money on my new-found love, and so maybe it was the gods simply saying, "Lara, go buy some Bud Light." But I had drank malt liquor for about three days straight when I noticed a rash forming on my arm. By the next day, it'd moved to my stomach and legs. By the end of that day, it had moved to my scalp and face.

I called my sister who's in Med School to ask her to diagnose my rash over the phone. She said it sounded like an allergic reaction, probably something I'd ingested judging from the fact that it had spread systematically all across my body.

Had I changed my eating habits lately, she asked. And I told her I"d only added one new thing: malt liquor.

I stopped drinking, and the rash disappeared. Just to make sure it was, in fact, the malt liquor that I was allergic to, I drank another bottle this weekend. LIke clockwork, my skin started to itch soon after.

And so, farewell my sweet malt liquor. Now I've got to find something new to replace it.

Posted by Lara Richards at 9:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)